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String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
Paul Hindemith · 1895–1963 · German
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 38 min
- Composed
- 1915
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four large movements; the longest of Hindemith's quartets, in a late-Romantic idiom
About this work
- Composed
- 1914-15 (completed score 1915 March/April)
- First performed
- 26 April 1915 at the Dr. Hoch’s Conservatorium, Frankfurt am Main; Paul Hindemith (violin I), Hermann Kraus (violin II),; Hermann Gebler (viola), Rudolf Hindemith (cello)
- Sehr Lebhaft ()
- Adagio: Im Anfang () dann allmählich schneller werden
- Scherzo: Sehr lebhaft ()
- Ziemlich lebhaft